I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ. (From Galatians, Immerse pg 167)

The other day, one of my teens came home from school and announced that his World History teacher covered “the entire history of Christianity in just a few class periods!”

I asked a follow up question: “Did he teach the history of Christianity or…of Christendom?”

His eyes grew big as he started to nod. “Good point! Yes!” he clarified. We went on to discuss that what makes the news—and the history books—is often powerful political or religious people making decrees and wars. But behind the scenes, hundreds or thousands or millions of Christ-followers are building communities together, working to love God and to love their neighbor. To seek justice, to love mercy, to walk humbly with God.

This is the history of Christianity, even if the stories will never be recorded.

In Galatians, Paul is shocked to learn that his disciples have found a “Good News” that is not good at all, that does not ring true with the loving mercy of Christ. They have been fooled by those who twist the message of our faith.

It’s a common tale. I’m sure Paul would have something similar to say to us, today. But still Jesus is inviting us to good news, to the love, mercy, and new life found in Christ. This is the Christianity we are invited to live into each day, together—no matter what is happening in the news.

-Catherine McNiel

Our Ash Wednesday service is March 5 at 6:30 pm. Through worship and the imposition of ashes, this is a service of remembering we are dust and to dust we shall return. This is the start of the Lenten season as we journey with Jesus to the cross. Childcare is available in the nursery. 

Every year the church invites us to mark the 40-day season of Lent until the celebration of the resurrection on Easter Sunday. In Lent, we focus more on confession, repentance from sin, and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Traditionally, the church invites us to focus on the spiritual practices of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving and to practice these together as a community.

We invite you to journey together through Lent in the following ways:

1. Weekly Communion- Every Sunday in Lent, we will practice confession and observe Holy Communion together.
2. Fasting + Prayer- We are joining with other Covenant churches in our area in a corporate fast on Wednesdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. We will be praying especially for refugees and immigrants in DuPage County, as well as other prayer topics we will send to you each week. 
3. Wednesdays: Praise & Prayer + Soup Supper- light soup supper from 5:30-6:30 pm; service of praise and prayer from 6:30-7:15 pm in the sanctuary.
4. Almsgiving- We encourage you to adopt a charity or missionary to give an extra love offering to during each week in Lent.

Pastor Eliza made you all a special Lenten Playlist on Spotify. Click the link below to listen! 

We are looking for volunteers to help with childcare. Please consider helping, so we can relieve our regular volunteers! Contact Pastor Eliza if you have questions.

April 6, 9:15-10:15 am (Congregational Meeting)
April 17, 6:30-7:30 pm (Maundy Thursday Service)
April 18, 6:30-7:30 pm (Good Friday Service)

All the women of Faith are invited to help us celebrate Baby Connors! RSVP using the link below.

Enjoy an evening of fun, fellowship, and good food on Saturday, March 15 at 6:00 pm. The hosts won’t know who’s coming to dinner, the guests won’t know who the other guests will be, and no one will know exactly what’s for dinner!

Today is the LAST day to sign-up. Pre-registration is required for this event. 

Read more about how the dinner works HERE.

We are looking for a regular, paid childcare worker for Sunday mornings during worship and could include helping with childcare during ESL classes on Wednesday nights. Maybe you know a neighbor who would be a good fit or have a friend who attends another church with a different worship time! Click on the job description below to learn more. Email questions and inquiries to Pastor Eliza, discipleship@faithecc.org.

Support World Relief as they navigate changes in their funding due to recent executive orders issued by our new administration. These changes impact both the critical services World Relief provides and those helping to provide these services.

Continue to keep their staff and clients in your prayers.

You can pick up your soup after church on March 9, and we will have extra soup for sale!
Suggested donation of $10/quart.

Check out this new video from Serve Globally to see how our denomination is joining God's mission throughout the world. 

Current Class: CS Lewis 
Teacher: Stephanie Clark
3/9: Till We Have Faces

Next class: Women Leaders of the Bible with Jessica Johnson

3/16: Eve, Queen of Eden (Part 1: Before Genesis 3)
3/23: Eve, Coworker of Adam (Part 2: After Genesis 3)
3/30: Deborah, Governor of Israel
4/6: Congregational Meeting (no Sunday School)
4/13: Palm Sunday (no Sunday School)
4/20: Easter Sunday (no Sunday School)
4/27: Mary, Apostle to the Apostles

Let us know how we can be praying for you or how God has been answering prayers in your life by clicking on the link below!

Pray requests:

• Continued prayer for our little one and wisdom as we make decisions for the future. - Joey & Tamara Milligan
• I have 2 midterms and a difficult quiz tomorrow as well as regular homework. Pray that I can focus well and be productive in my studying and working today. -Laelle Tuggy
• Sally and I would like to thank all of you who continue to pray for us. - Gary & Sally Hutchinson
• I pray that my upcoming birthday (specifically in 23 days) will be fun. - Judah Zboncak

Continue to Pray for:

• Ben Hayes & the Hayes family (follow along on Ben's CARING BRIDGE page)
• Sally & Gary Hutchinson

 Pray For Our BLESS people:
BLESS is the Covenant's approach to intentional prayer and evangelism. Listed below are names of people in your lives who you are praying would come to know Jesus this year. We are praying with you.

• David
• Tom
• Jenay

Pray For Our Church Family:

• Dan & Mandy Erb; Brett and Hunter
• Cynthia & Vic Erickson
• Joan Erickson
• Janet Fitchuk
• Amanda & Ben Franklin; Benjamin and Brooks
• Barb & Gene Frost
• Lea Gaitens

Pray For Our Missionaries/Ministries:

Dale & Sara Lusk serve the Evangelical Covenant Church as administrators and coordinators for short term teams to minister around the world. They assist in developing healthy relationships between Covenant Churches and international ministry sites. Dale is the International Director for Global Engagements in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

• Presently, we have three interns in our new Global Internship program with the Evangelical Covenant Church. This program is to give ECC churches an opportunity to disciple young people from their churches to possibly lead toward future Global Personnel. Pray for seven more interns for this first year.
• We have been invited into partnership with the Covenant Church of Colombia and hope to take teams there as soon as possible. There will be four sites available in four different regions of the country.  We also have been invited to partner with an amazing Gospel sharing ministry, connected with ECC in Lyon France, called Cultural Fusion and to an outreach ministry to Muslim gypsies in Lezhe, Albania.
• We have more teams than ever before participating in our domestic short-term trips to locations all over the United States. We have seven teams going to USA sites, four to Alaska, and two going to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to learn about immigration.
• The big disappointment in 2025 has been international trips. Of the 30 international trips we have organized for 2025 nine have been cancelled for various reasons
• We had organized two trips for Crescendo, the ECC ministry to 60+ adults, one to Mexico and one to Thailand but have had almost no response for these trips.
• A primary personal prayer request is for our two children, ages 16 & 13, to find a youth group in our area. We hope to partner with a local Spanish-speaking Covenant Church to help them restart and develop a youth group. We are praying for this to work out to meet the spiritual and relational needs our children to connect with other believing youth. 

Send Dale & Sara a word of encouragement dale.lusk@covchurch.org.

The Care and Prayer Ministry Team prays for all prayer requests submitted through the digital and paper Connect Cards.  If you have an urgent prayer need, you can email careteam@faithecc.org or call Team Leader Rita Christensen at 630-835-8737.

Week 7
Day 31 pp. 190-196 
Day 32 pp. 196-202 
Day 33 pp. 203-206 
Day 34 pp. 207-214 
Day 35 pp. 215-220 

Week 8
Day 36 pp. 220-224 
Day 37 pp. 225-232 
Day 38 pp. 233-241 
Day 39 pp. 243-247 
Day 40 pp. 249-255 

Looking for the audiobook? Listen to this week's reading here: Immerse website, Spotify, or Apple Podcast.

March 6
Georgia Broman
March 7
Matthias Austin
Connor Regnas
Skyler Schlinger
March 8
Julie Brown

Wednesday (3/5)
Tiger Breakfast (7:00 am)
Lenten Fast & Prayer (11:00-1:00)
Wednesdays at Windsor (12:00 pm)
Kids Club (6:00 pm)
ESL Class (6:00 pm)
Ash Wednesday Service (6:30 pm)
Choir Rehearsal (7:15 pm)

Sunday (3/9)
Morning Prayer (8:45 am)
Sunday School (9:15 am)
Worship (10:30 am)
412 Youth (6:00 pm)

Wednesday (3/12)
Tiger Breakfast (7:00 am)
Lenten Fast & Prayer (11:00-1:00)
Kids Club (6:00 pm)
ESL Class (6:00 pm)
Soup Supper (5:30 pm)
Lenten Prayer Service (6:30 pm)
Choir Rehearsal (7:15 pm)

Thursday (3/13)
Happy Birthday Faith Covenant (founded on this day in 1966)

Saturday (3/15)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (6:00 pm)

This week we continue our series Messiah with a sermon on Luke 12:13-21.

Sunday worship begins at 10:30 am. Join us in person or via live stream on Facebook or YouTube.

We have two assisted listening devices available at the sound booth every Sunday morning. Ask one of our sound booth volunteers if you would like to use one during worship!

The Community Board is a space for us to...

Kids CDs or tapes to share: I was wondering if anyone has CDs or tapes with kids music that you aren’t currently using? I would love to borrow some music to listen to with the girls, especially Christian music or things that other people enjoyed listening to with their kids. Email me: saraheagee@gmail.com -Sarah Johnson

Book Give Away: If anyone has been wanting to read "THE REASON FOR GOD" by Tim Keller, I am done and will pass it on. -Susan Aarseth

Selling or Donating a Car: My brother-in-law is currently studying at a seminary. Unfortunately, their family's minivan, which they relied on for daily transportation, has recently broken down beyond repair. They urgently need a vehicle to help manage everyday responsibilities, such as attending classes and running errands, but they have very limited funds. If you know anyone who has a vehicle they might be willing to sell or, even better, donate, please reach out to Pastor Zachs, outreach@faithecc.org or 331.236.0316. Your assistance would mean the world to them! Thank you! 

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Have something to contribute? Send it to the church office: office@faithecc.org